First HomeGrown Truckee Gathering

HomeGrown Truckee Tuesday March 24, 2009
East River St. 7pm

I. Introductions and why we’re here….

Attending: Judy, Monique, Mike Kuygler, Mike Kahlich, Allison, Amy, Byron, Justin, Scott, Cari, Carin

II. HomeGrown Truckee Visioning:

Local Food Production
-¼ of Truckee’s food grown locally

Create Local Food Demand
- Local Food System Infrastructure
- education and promote restaurants buying more locally

Celebration of Food/ Food Gathering Places
- Food Artisan Partnership
- Canning, pickling, preserving
- Cooperative Greenhouse restaurant

Education
- Food/agriculture/ nutritional education
- Organization/ Forum/ Depot
- Workshops/ Playshops
- Tool lending library
- Tap into local knowledge/ Knowledge Sharing

Community Food Growing Places
- Greenhouse for Project Mana Gardens
- Judy’s Garden space
- Accesible Fertile Land
- Volunteer Efforts
- Private Land/ Public Land donated for growing
- Labor Sharing and community participation

Community Participation across the ages
- Community gardens with kids
- Agriculture and gardens in schools
- Garden at old Middle School

Food Policy
- Creating Regional Partnerships
- Tap in to government and grant funding on Climate Change
- Foundation/ support for agricultural efforts

Access and Availability
-Food Distribution System

III. Awareness of present

Fear of not being able to grow, doubt about soil, conditions, frost
Scott William’s green house available for seed starts
Papoose garden at Dana and Mike’s
Project MANA
Home gardens
Weston A. Price Foundation (Obama and poltical ties)
Farmers Market
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Foot hill farming
Lake of the Sky Garden Club
Shaw Family Farm
Craigslist for tools, suppplies
Slowfood USA
Local Nursery Businesses
-Trout Creek
-Villager Nursery
-Tahoe Tree Company
-Perennial Nursery
Composting Facility
-Full Circle Composting in Minden
-Shaw Family Farm
-Don in Olympic Heights

IV. Moving Forward

Personal gardens:
-What grows well here? broccoli, cauliflower, squash, peppers, peas…
- Site Analysis > (Judy) willing to do site visioning
- Order Seeds >Dana has a relationship with seed company from Willits
- Soil Analysis
- Workshop on Sheet mulching (Cari) and collaborate to get materials
- Sharing Cuttings, swapping

Centralized composting approach: Where can this happen? School? Brainstorm this.

Communication
Facebook/ e-mail/ website/ knowledge share forum/ calendar….
Newspaper Feed
-Moonshine
-Sierra Sun (Seth Lightcap)

Monthly meetings/Bi-monthly meetings and sharing gatherings

Wisdom share
-(Judy’s friend >older gentleman?)
-Gary’s expertise (Carin and Amy’s contact)
-Gathering for education on seed starts, transplanting…preparing site etc…
-Bulletin Board at New Moon